Home & Garden
Hot Property: Bruce Willis seeks action on his Beverly Hills estate
Actor Bruce Willis has entered the fray in the Westside's action-packed housing market, listing his Beverly Hills mansion at $22 million.
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HOME & GARDEN
'Does It Work?' Wraptastic, Pocket Hose, Smart Twist Cleaning System, Flower Rocket, WaxVac
From those amped-up TV ads, you have to wonder how humanity survived before collapsible garden hoses and earwax vacuums.
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HOME & GARDEN
Local students make fertilizer with help from rabbits
The lazy days of summer are for making sun tea and sipping iced tea. But at Barclay School on Columbia College campus the students brew another type of tea, an organic manure tea for plants. The tea is made in partnership with the school’s pair of rabbits, Toby and Ginny, who are nicknamed...
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HOME & GARDEN
Home style: 'Star Trek' crafts; women's tools; unsticking drawers
ON THE SHELF: CRAFT BOOKS BOLDLY GO WHERE NONE HAS GONE BEFORE
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HOME & GARDEN
Diggin' In: Feng shui for your garden
Is your garden calling out to you to do something and you are not sure what to do first?
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HOME & GARDEN
Living Smart: Appliance maintenance
Every day our appliances take a beating. From the constant opening and closing of doors to turning them on and off, our daily actions can eventually lead to a repair call or earlier-than-expected replacement.
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HOME & GARDEN
Your Place: Patio bricks are turning black on top; sulfur smell
Q: I have a dry-laid brick patio bordered on three sides by flower beds. Over the years I have noticed that the bricks are turning black on top. This is not from garden soil or mud, and it is not uniform in its coverage. I have thought about scrubbing the bricks with a water-bleach mix, but I am...
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HOME & GARDEN
On Gardening: Blue Fortune anise hyssop simply stunning in the garden
Blue Fortune Agastache, or anise hyssop, is causing quite a stir in our garden. We have dozens - some partnered with TigerEye Gold rudbeckia, others with the scarlet milkweed - but believe me when I say 3- to 4-foot-tall incredible spikes of blue bottle brush-like flowers are indeed stealing the...
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HOME & GARDEN
'Until She Comes Home' by Lori Roy
"Until She Comes Home" by Lori Roy; Dutton ($26.95)
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HOME & GARDEN
Pocket neighborhoods promote sense of community
Ross Chapin is re-envisioning the neighborhood.


